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Surge Pricing: Uber, Hotels & Hurricane Plywood

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A $12 Uber fare jumping to $30 once a concert lets out gets explained as a price rationing scarce drivers and signaling more of them to log on, then that logic gets applied to a capped $120 hotel rate and a hurricane plywood run. Students weigh in on whether that spike is gouging.

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